42nd Season 2007-2008

VOICES FROM OKINAWA

By Jon Shirota
Directed by Tim Dang
 

Set and Projection Designer Mina Kinukawa

Costume Designer Soojin Lee

Lighting Designer Guido Girardi

Sound Designer Dave Iwataki

Property Master Ken Takemoto

Stage Manager Ondina V. Dominguez

WORLD PREMIERE
Previews: February 7 - 10, 2008
Opening Date: February 13,  2008

Kama Hutchins, an American graduate student of one quarter Okinawan descent, teaches English in Okinawa, and receives an unexpected education in Okinawan- American relations. When asked to prepare a speech, the students rise up together as one voice that demands to be heard. From the author of LEILANI'S HIBISCUS and LUCKY COME HAWAII.

 

 

Cast

Sachiko Hayashi..............................................Keiko Oshiro

Amy Hill...............................................................Obaa-san

Astushi Hirata...........................................Hitoshi Kaneshiro

Teruko Kataoka..........................................Harue Kaneshiro

Joseph Kim..................................................Kama Hutchins

Taishi Mizuno..................................................Takeshi Araki

Mari Ueda...................................................Namiye Matsuda

Kotaro Watanabe.....................................Yasunobu Hokama

 

 

VOICES FROM OKINAWA Photos by Michael Lamont

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Generous support for this production is provided by the
S. Mark Taper Foundation Endowment for East West Players.

 

 

VOICES FROM OKINAWA is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the

Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

 

 

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